Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31

any, ana the number or StOcKnOideTS, Tie
funded and loating debts and the interest
paid thereof; the cost and value OF the
carriers property, franchises and equip
ment; the lumber of employees and the
salaries paid each class; the amounts eI-
pended for Improvements each year, how
expended, aud the character of such i'm
provements the earnings and receipts
from each branch of business and from
all sources the operating and other e1-
penses; the balances of profit and loss;
and a complete exhibit of the financial
operations of the carrier each year, in
Guiding an annual balance sheet. Such
reports shall also contain such informa-
ton IN relation to rates or regulations
concerning fares or frsights, or agree
ments, arrangements, or contracts with
other common carriers, as the commission
may require; and the said commission
may, within its discretion, for the purpose
of enabling it the better to carry out the
purpose of this act, prescribe (if in the
opinion of the commission it is practica-
BILE to prescribe such uniformity and
methods OF keeping accounts) a period
of time within which all common carriers
subject to the provisions of this act shall
have, as near as may be, a uniform system
of accounts, and the manner in which
such accounts shall be kept.
REPORT BY COMMISSION.
Section FL. That the commission shall
on or before the first day Of December in
each year, make report to tho secretary
of the interior, which shall be by him
transmitted to congress, and copies of
which shall be distributed as are the 9th
er reports issued from the interior de-
partment. This report shall contain such
information and data collected by the
commission as may be considered of value
in the determination of questions con-
nected with the regulation of commerce,
together with such recommendations as
to additional legislation relating thereto
as the commission may deem necessary.
FREE Or REDUCED RATES.
Section %. That nothing in this act
shall apply to the carriage, storage or
handling of property free or at reduced
rates for the United States, state or mum
icipal governments, or for charitable pur-
poses, or to or from fairs and expositions
for exhibition thereat, or the issuance of
mileage, excursion or communication pas
senger tickets; nothing ia this act shall
be construed to prohibit any common
carrier from giving reduced rates to min
listers of religion; nothing in this act
shall be construed to prevent railroads
from giving free carriage to their own
officers and employees, or to prevent the
principal officers of any railroad company
or companies from exchanging passes or
tickets with other railroad companies for
their officers and employees, and nothing
in this act contained shall III any way
abridge Or alter the remedies now existing
at common law or by statute, but the pro-
visions of this act are in addition to such
remedies. Provided, that no pending
litigation shall in any way be affected by
this act.
Section %. That the sum of one hum
dred thousand dollars is hereby appro-
prlated for the use and purposes of this
act, for the fiscal year ending June thir-
tieth, Ammo Domini eighteen hundred and
eighty eight and the intervening time
anterior thereto.
Section "a. That the provisions of
sections eleven and eighteen of this act,
relating to the appointment and organi-
cation of the commission herein provid-
ed for, shall take effect Immediately, and
the remaining provisions of this act shall
take effect sixty days after its passage.